How to pronounce brownie
American English pronunciation
BROW-nee
- IPA
- /ˈbɹaʊni/
- Syllables
- BROW · nee (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What brownie means
A helpful elf of folk tales who secretly does housework
In a sentence: Grandma joked that a brownie must have swept the kitchen while we were all asleep.
Where it comes from: It comes from the word brown. The folk-tale elf goes back to the 1510s, long before the chocolate treat, which is first known from 1897.
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